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Brainiacs suffer tech bungle, admit Einstein was right

by Big Rob
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Brainiacs at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, have admitted to the tech fail of the century, telling us what we all instinctively knew already: Einstein was right. Their initial claim last year that subatomic particles could travel faster than light sparked science enthusiasts' imaginations everywhere: Was time travel possible? The researchers have now discovered their test equipment was faulty, meaning their data was flawed. We more levelheaded folks always sided with physics grand master Jim al-Khalili, who vowed to eat his boxer shorts on TV if Einstein was proven wrong. We're glad Einstein hasn't been knocked off his pedestal -- but sorry not to see al-Khalili eat his underwear.
  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Considering how politicians are messing up the present, I find it a tad comforting to know that it's not going to be quite so easy for them to mess up the past as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    BESIDES, people have known that it has been possible for matter to go near to or past the speed of light for a LONG time. They effectively do that in particle accelerators. But ATOMS can NOT! In fact, particle accelerators prove that. So transmitting a neutrino at even a billion times the speed of like gets us NO closer to transmitting anything worthwhile. If it did, you would have to question a lot of things in electronics and atomic theory, even if you disregarded everything Einstein ever said.

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  • Profile picture of the author kolbywhite28
    Originally Posted by Big Rob View Post

    but sorry not to see al-Khalili eat his underwear.
    Dang, I was really looking forward to it.
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